Ivan M. Cruz Burgos

Experience

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  Banco Popular Dominicano

  Nov 2008 - Dec 2009

  Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Credit Analyst

  Verified SME loans and credit’s information in order with bank compliance, redirecting them for approval.

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  Instituto Dominicano de Seguros Sociales (IDSS)

  Jan 2010 - Apr 2012

  Head Of Quality Assurance

  • Created the QA department after explaining to higher ups that the Institute needed a further step of verification in its approval process. Initially, led a team of 3 people in charge of verifying documentation for pension funds approvals. • Implemented a plan for digitization of documents into a document management digital system, successfully digitizing more than 80% of existing documentation in the institute.

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  Ministerio de Industria y Comercio

  May 2013 - Sept 2019

  • Led a team of 10 people in the newly created focal department in matters of Productive Articulation in the country, developing policies that positively affect local markets in coordination with international strategies and trends. • Represented the country in more than 20 international summits and vouched for the interest of the country in accordance with national and regional strategies to bolster local economic development. • Managed 12 million euros from the European Union, implementing policies to strengthen the quality of products and services of SME. Resulting in the comprehensive improvement of the value chains of the processed fruits, cosmetics, and beauty industries. • Designed and implemented a program to improve tourism by showcasing how local products are made. Resulting in an increased revenue of multiple SME by the creation of more than 70 unique experiences. • Arranged the 10th Plenary Meeting on "Global Value Chains, Transformation and Productive Development", with the participation of the member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Show less • Developed a service for Business Association by training advisers in Small Business Development Centers (SBDC), nationally. For the service, created a diagnostic tool in order to facilitate the processes of business association, constructed a financial viability study of associative projects, a tool for measuring the maturity of a consortium, and indicators for measuring associativity impact. In two years, the service was used by 900 companies and 33 business groups, in 15 territories nationwide. • Created the Training Program for Junior Associative Advisors with the coordination of 15 universities. Training more than 36 senior students in accounting, entrepreneurship, design thinking, international trade, sustainable development and e-commerce. • Implemented the Program for the Development of Productive Capacities in the Pedernales Province. Resulting in the mapping of Pedernales touristic value chain and in the subsequent implementation of evidence-based policies. Show less

  • Head of the Productive Articulation Department

    Jun 2016 - Sept 2019

  • Business Association Coordinator

    Jul 2015 - May 2016

  • Project Analyst

    May 2013 - Jun 2015
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  Ministerio de Economía, Planificación y Desarrollo

  Sept 2019 - Sept 2020

  Centralized private, public, and international aid for the COVID-19 national response. Key Actions:• Negotiated 229,456,342 million DOP resulting in the acquisition of goods and services otherwise not covered by public funds. • Spearheaded more than 45 bilateral meetings with cooperation agencies or countries, successfully providing technical assistance and more than 300,000 medical resources for the COVID-19 crisis. • Coordinated with the country’s health institutions to determine the public health needs for the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the clear articulation of needs and in the development of a plan of action. • Planned for the country’s economic recuperation by restructuring funds allocation to post-crisis projects. Show less Led, strategized, negotiated, and coordinated international and bilateral cooperation projects for the Dominican Republic.Key actions:• Led a thirty-two people team and strategized on how to improve international aid management resulting in the optimization of multiple processes and reduction in response and follow up times of more than 40%. • Designed the International Cooperation Strategy, resulting in a ministry-wide adoption to develop and guide their agendas.• Developed cooperation projects with the Ministries of Industry, Commerce, and SME; Labor; Education; Finance; among others, facilitating the implementation of each institution’s annual plan.• Negotiated 62 aid projects with more than 20 international development agencies (USAID, JICA, AFD, AECID, GIZ, among others), acquiring 400+ millions DOP.• Created guidelines regarding best practices for cooperation projects, resulting in an improved planning and organization.• Designed new documentation structure resulting in the approved certification of the ISO-9001 standard. Show less

  • General Coordinator of Emergency Funds for COVID-19

    Mar 2020 - Sept 2020

  • Director General for Bilateral Cooperation

    Sept 2019 - Sept 2020
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  Ministerio de Industria y Comercio

  Sept 2020 - Jul 2022

  Director of Promotion of Special Regimes
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  Oficina Gubernamental de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación de la República Dominicana

  Jul 2022 - Oct 2022

  Digital Innovation Manager
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  Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales

  Oct 2022 - now

  Director of Financial Mechanisms and Portfolio Management

  To promote the necessary actions to identify portfolios of public and private projects that align with national priorities and are compatible with international commitments to climate change, as well as manage the climate funds and instruments derived from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The goal is to encourage projects that generate investment activities for mitigation, adaptation to climate change, and sustainability.

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  Green Climate Fund

  Feb 2025 - now

  Board Member